From: nickrob@snap.net.nz (Nick Roberts)
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: tooltip-mode shouldn't be enabled in the Linux console by default
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 23:04:05 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18932.16293.813561.158162@totara.tehura.co.nz> (raw)
For Emacs in CVS, tooltip-mode is enabled by default for text-only terminals.
The file tooltip.el says this:
;; Even if we start on a text-only terminal, make this non-nil by
;; default because we can open a graphical frame later (multi-tty).
I think this is wrong because, in the Linux console with gpm, every time the
mouse moves over a region with a help-echo property, in the mini-buffer, you
get the error message:
Error while displaying tooltip: (error Non-X frame used)
before the help text appears.
Presumably if a multi-tty user chooses to open a graphical frame, he
can enable tooltip-mode if he wishes. Or maybe it is possible to distinguish
between the Linux console and a text-only terminal on a graphical terminal,
e.g xterm on X11 where gpm is not available.
--
Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob
next reply other threads:[~2009-04-26 11:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-26 11:04 Nick Roberts [this message]
2009-04-26 17:43 ` tooltip-mode shouldn't be enabled in the Linux console by default Eli Zaretskii
2009-04-26 18:24 ` Glenn Morris
2009-04-27 4:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-04-27 18:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-04-28 2:18 ` Chong Yidong
2009-04-28 7:57 ` Nick Roberts
2009-04-28 8:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-04-28 13:45 ` Chong Yidong
2009-04-29 7:22 ` Nick Roberts
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